http://techdirt.com/articles/20080610/0146101362.shtml

I have been reading about this the last few days. The gist is that with Google, people are now finding it hard to sit down with a book and read.

Taking a completely different read on the situation, I am completely ambivalent to whether this is good or bad for humanity. More interesting is to see our human mind at work. As soon as situations change, our very mind makes the best use it can out of it. It has literally changed its way of thinking to utilize new resources. Any normal animal, this would require evolution, at least a number of years to work through a changing circumstances. In humans, we make such a drastic change within a single lifetime. Absolutely amazing.